Sentences with phrase «voting policies with»

Emma Boorboor, election reform campaign director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), told me that in October 2015, she sent a letter to Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb and two other Vanguard employees outlining her concerns with the mutual fund company's voting policies with respect to corporate political disclosure.

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«As a manager or as an employer, you can circulate a memo as you're approaching an election, for example, reminding everyone that they're encouraged to vote and have a right to their own opinion, but that their expressions of their political beliefs should be respectful and in keeping with workplace policy.

Italy's government, divided over the Afghan war and ties with the U.S. military, lost a crucial vote on foreign policy on Wednesday that plunged Prime Minister Romano Prodi into his worst crisis since taking office in May.

With U.S. hiring expected to bounce back in June and no financial meltdown from the Brexit vote currently seen, economists in the Reuters poll now expect the Fed to tighten monetary policy in July or September.

Also of interest, the groups that were the most negative on the new economic policies were those with college degrees and people living in the Northeast, both demographics that exit polls show voted more for Hillary Clinton.

In the U.K., the nine - member Monetary Policy Committee decides a course of action by consensus, with each member having a single vote.

The provisions in the bill must directly affect the federal government's spending or revenue — it's a way to restrict what policies can pass under the special privileges of reconciliation, which allows a bill to advance with only 50 votes instead of the usual 60.

The International Monetary Fund threatened to bar Venezuela from voting on IMF policies after the Latin American country failed to provide IMF with the economic data it has requested, the Continue Reading

Such a change would reduce its influence, leaving it with a role in monetary affairs similar to that of other regional Fed banks, most of which only have a vote on policy every three years.

OTTAWA — Broadbent Institute founder Ed Broadbent on Friday kicked off the country's flagship progressive policy conference with a call for progressives to make sure the next election is held under a proportional voting system.

A proposal from an individual investor with 60 shares to «reform executive compensation policy with social responsibility» garnered less than 7 percent of the vote.

In connection with a shareholder proposal made at the 2012 annual meeting of shareholders, the Company informed its shareholders that the Board had adopted a policy providing for majority voting for the election of directors in uncontested elections and that the Company would take steps to implement majority voting in its Articles and bylaws.

The fate of several state policies that allowed SolarCity to operate had become more uncertain, thanks mostly to hostility from the entrenched utilities, and the company was forced to pull out of Nevada altogether after the state's public utilities commission voted to significantly cut benefits for homeowners with solar.

The ECB's monetary policy in September was a non-event, with the governing council neither making any changes to the existing policy nor adding new ones as they voted to leave interest rates and non-monetary policies on hold.

Once adopted, the remuneration of executive directors would have to be determined in accordance with the principles and criteria outlined in the policy, and any significant changes would have to be submitted to a new shareholder vote.

SAN FRANCISCO (September 13, 2007)-- Glass Lewis & Co., LLC, a leading independent research and proxy advisory firm, today announced the launch of the ESG Watch List Service, a tool that enables Glass Lewis» proxy voting clients to track companies with environmental, social, or governance (ESG) policies and / or practices that may create operational, performance, financial, legal, accounting or reputational risks.

In this role, Carla was responsible, together with Glass Lewis» chief policy officer, for the development of the firm's voting guidelines while working closely with the research department and interacting with investors, issuers, regulators and other interested parties.

In addition, users of Glass Lewis» proxy voting platform, Viewpoint, will have the ability to incorporate ESG factors into their custom voting policies, tailor workflow and reporting with various ESG criteria and access the full Sustainalytics ESG data set for analysis, screening, voting and engagement purposes.

Out of 120 votes in the provincial legislature since the NDP took office, the two parties voted together 90 per cent of the time, says the report by John Whittaker, a policy analyst with the Calgary - based research centre.

- Majority voting policies provide minority shareholders with greater influence over the composition of the board of directors, who are their key representatives.

Majority voting policies provide minority shareholders with greater influence over the composition of the board of directors, who are their key representatives.

And why is that the Central Banks are getting away with policies that really are completely insane and which none of us voted for?

It is one thing to not agree with his policy or views on the critical topics, its another to simply note vote for a candidate because of one's ignorance and views around Mitt Romney's personal belief in Jesus Christ.

If its policies are unacceptable then employees and consumers will vote with their feet / dollars.

Irving, Texas (CNN)- The polarizing debate over whether Boy Scouts of America should allow gay members could culminate with a vote on a new policy Wednesday.

Didion's point is that this tendency has flattened discussion since 9/11, and has created a government in which Democrats, with few exceptions, either have remained silent or have supported whatever the president wants with respect to foreign policy — the congressional vote on war powers in regard to Iraq being the, prime example.

I may not like many of Obama's policies and failed promises - actually, I do not and I did not vote for him - but I hold him in very high regard as a man who tends to speak well of other people (yes, he's said some careless things occasionally, but only occasionally), who clearly loves and respects his family, who tries to take the high road in dealings with others.

On Saturday, the Sandy Valley Conference of Free Will Baptists, the regional body of the denomination, released a statement saying the church policy was «Null and Void,» because the vote was not held in accordance with proper parliamentary procedure.

But while I agree with them on many economic policies, I flatly refuse to vote for anyone in bed with the fundamentalists who are campaigning to take away the rights of their fellow citizens.

U.S. opposition to the ICC is of a piece with its vote a year earlier against the treaty to ban antipersonnel land - mines, its refusal to pay UN dues, its economic sanctions on allies that do business in Cuba, and its implicit foreign policy of demanding a «superpower exemption» from international rules.

This is not to say that we can not come to impassioned, principled positions about how to vote, particularly when dealing with issues as important as sexual assault, bigotry, racism, responsible foreign policy, religious liberty, and the dignity of human life at every stage in its development.

Talking about upward mobility doesn't help with voters who aren't already inclined to vote Republican unless that upward mobility talk is combined with clear explanations of policies that will plausibly improve the lives of those voters.

But Rodriguez is closing the Republican National Convention's first day with a prayer Tuesday, helping to give presumptive nominee Mitt Romney entrée to the Latino community, a swing voting bloc that has largely abandoned the Republican Party over immigration policy in recent elections.

Then stay the fu (k away from influencing policies with your mindless votes, but sadly that's not the case.

You don't hear a peep out of the fools that voted for Obama and is running this country into the toilet with his policies.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

On June 28th, the U.S. Supreme Court — in a bitterly divided 5 — 4 vote — upheld a public university's right to enforce an «all - comers» antidiscrimination policy against a student group affiliated with the Christian Legal Society (CLS).

At the ABC meetings delegates and visitors may sit anywhere and everywhere, almost as though it were an intentional act of the executive leadership to render the policy - making and voting process as difficult as possible for the delegates, scattered as they are and mingled with the «visitors.»

The European Parliament's ENVI Committee has this week voted through a proposal for EU renewable energy policy to be brought in line with the waste hierarchy.

One Farm, One Vote How does policy work with Organic Farmers Association?

Park supporters have called the group «s actions extreme and said residents could simply vote incumbents out of office if they are unhappy with park board policy.

Baby Milk Action's Policy Director, Patti Rundall, OBE, is lodging a complaint of maladministration with the EU Ombudsman following the Commission's failure to issue a correction before the crucial ENVI vote.

Patti Rundall, OBE, Policy Director of Baby Milk Action, IBFAN UK also commented: «We are delighted with this vote.

Patti Rundall, policy director of the campaign group Baby Milk Action, said that she was «thrilled» with the news of the vote.

For example, to pass a Budget, the Rainbow Coalition would need to come up with economic policies which all of the following could vote for: 1.

«I'm quietly confident, in a non-complacent way, that the people who are flirting with the Greens, a large number of them will end up voting Labour - for positive reasons, because we've got radical policies on the environment, we've got very good policies on addressing inequality, the housing crisis, the NHS.

If I do decide to do it, I've got my policies, I know what I want to stand for, and if you can get that across to the public it doesn't matter who you are; if they agree with you, they will vote for you.»

The party may very well not represent many of their views (those ~ 20 % libertarians are among the examples you list, who largely disagree with Republicans on social issues like gay marriage - yet, they tend to vote Republican, over other issues like fiscal policy)

It's worked in the past, at least according to the «What's the Matter with Kansas» argument, since for a generation conservative activists have voted for Republicans who've instituted corporate - and wealth - friendly policies once in office while largely giving lip service to moral issues and libertarian priorities.

He warned against pursuing protest votes, instead calling for bold policies from the new leader to present voters with a starker choice on cutting the deficit.